The Jewish community of Genoa has addressed a strong protest to the municipal authorities against the burial of a Jew in the Catholic cemetery
The Jew, who was en route from the United States to Israel, was removed from a vessel after suffering a severe fall. While he was in the hospital he was visited by members of the Jewish community to whom he repeatedly professed his Jewish faith.
On the morning after his death, Jewish community members who went to the hospital were told that in his last moments he had asked to become a Catholic and had received the sacraments. His family in Israel had been informed of his death, but no mention had been made of his alleged conversion. The community here has demanded that the body be sent to Israel for burial by the family.
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